BUFFALO – He weaved out of his own end, beat a pair of forecheckers, navigated through the neutral zone, dangled across the line and then, when Jaromir Jagr ripped one top shelf against Ryan Miller, No. 68 had ended a 12-game scoring drought.

Well, no, not really, for though Jagr did end the drought at a dozen games, he got the goal when Fedor Tyutin’s first-period wrist shot from 60 feet away at 6:10 of the first glanced in off the captain.

What did the puck hit; his hip, his side?

“It hit my aura,” a grinning Jagr joked following the Rangers’ 4-3 victory here last night that washed away all the bad taste of Tuesday’s stunning 6-5 loss in Montreal in which the Blueshirts could not hold a 5-0 lead. “Hey, really, it’s not about me or about whether I score.

“It’s about doing what I can to help the team. That’s all.”

The Rangers are 4-0-2 in their last six, 7-2-2 in their last 11. Much of the recent success is due to the recently constructed Jagr-Brandon Dubinsky-Sean Avery unit that registered three goals last night – one apiece – including the game-winner by Avery off a broken play with 5:05 to go.

As has been his wont since Feb. 5, Avery remained mute; like Garbo, he wants to be let alone. But he and his mates have talked on the ice, recording eight goals and 11 assists in four games.

“They’re using their individual strengths to form a good combination,” said Tom Renney, whose cool hand contributed to the Rangers’ ability to put Tuesday in the rear-view. “They’re all strong and fearless with the puck and are starting to develop instincts for where one another is.”

The first two periods featured amble-scramble hockey. The Rangers led 1-0 and 2-1, then trailed 3-2. The score was tied early in the third when Henrik Lundqvist stopped a Tomas Vanek breakaway.

“We had a day off after Montreal and even though you want to be able to relax when you’re away from the rink, I walked around all day thinking about it,” Lundqvist said. “But we were able to put it behind us as soon as we got to the rink [on Thursday].

“We played out best hockey in third period in this game. Nobody was nervous because of what happened the other night. We know we can play a tight game.”

But even as the Rangers clamped down in the third – Chris Drury is on their side this time around – they were hardly boasting.

“I think we can play a lot better; a lot better,” said Jagr, whose goal was his 16th of the season and first since Jan. 22. “I don’t think we played extremely well, but one thing we can do is compete, and we did that.

“You know, Montreal, I think we learned something in that game. You don’t want to lose a game or a point the way we did, but if we learned something, it can turn out to be good for us.

“It can be good for us in the playoffs.”

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Paul Mara sustained a blow to the head on a Patrick Kaleta check at 3:12 of the first and did not return. . . . The Post has learned that the Blueshirts have had dialogue with Edmonton aimed at obtaining talented AHL winger Rob Schremp, the 25th-overall selection in the 2004 Entry Draft.